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Google Maps, Search and Assistant Now Let You Find Nearby COVID-19 Testing Centers Google has been closelymonitoring the impact of the Novel Coronavirussince its inception early this year. The company has already taken severalmeasuresto help users stay safe and informed. The Mountain View-based tech giant recently added some safety features inGoogle Maps. Now, they have added a feature in Google Search and Google Assistant along with Maps that aims to helps users locate nearby Coronavirus testing centers....

Here’s a Simple Trick to Exit Full-Screen YouTube Videos Quickly YouTube has been getting a lot of features of late, like theintegration of Google Search results alongside videosand the newvideo chapters feature. Now, alongside these features, Google added another pretty nifty feature that went under the radar. This feature allows a user to exit the full-screen view of a video on the YouTube app with a single swipe. Prior to this gesture, when in full-screen mode, users needed to tap that tiny square at the bottom right corner....

Oppo Confirms Making Its Own In-House Chipset for Smartphones Oppo has beenrumored to be workingon their in-house chipset, the “Oppo M1”, for quite a long time now. The company alsohired executives from chip-making companieslike MediaTek and Unisoc. Now, the President of Oppo has confirmed that the company will be actually making its own chips to support their smartphones. In a recent interview, Liu Bo, Oppo’s President of the China business confirmed that the Chinese smartphone brand is planning to make an in-house chipset for the company’s future growth....

Panasonic’s New App Lets You Use Its Mirrorless Cameras as Webcams Since the rise of the Coronavirus-led lockdowns,video conferencing saw a huge increase in usageas people started to work from their homes. However, getting a decent picture quality during a video call is out of the question as most laptops come with pretty basic (and inferior) cameras. In light of the situation, major camera companies are now helping people use the DSLR and mirrorless cameras as webcams to get a high-quality picture during their video calls....

PS5 Titles Could Cost More for Developers to Develop says Sony CEO Afterquite a long waitand a number ofdelays, Sony finallyrevealed the PlayStation 5for the gamers. Now, we all know that the PS5 brings some pretty dope tech inside to run thehigh-quality games Sony just showed off. However, Sony CEO recently confirmed that developing games these games for their next PlayStation will cost more for the developers. In a recent interview with GamesIndustry, the CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Jim Ryan said that the cost of producing a PS5 game will be higher than before....

Scientists Discover Quantum Matter for the First Time in Space Nearly a century ago, Indian mathematician, Satyendra Nath Bose, and German theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of an exotic particle that is responsible for the unending expansion of the universe. This came to be known as the Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Now, for the first time, astronauts onboard the International Space Station have found the particle out in space, orbiting the earth....

These Games Will Support Snap’s “Bitmoji for Games” Last year, Snap, the parent company ofBitmojiandSnapchat, announced the “Bitmoji for Games” tool that was supposed to let Snapchat users bring their Bitmoji avatars into video games. Now, the company recently announced the games that will support the tool and bring you, or rather your Bitmoji avatar, into the virtual world of a video game. Now, avatars in video games have existed for quite a long time....